Table 2.

The proportion of students who engaged in any or the regular occurrence of disordered eating behaviors (dietary restraint, binge eating distinguished by loss of control) and compensatory behaviors (self‐induced vomiting, use of laxatives, excessive exercising) during the preceding 28 days

	Range	Any occurrence (%), n = 382	Regular occurrence (%), n = 382
Dietary restraint	—	30.4	10.7
Binge eating distinguished by loss of control	0–96	43.5	18.6
Self‐induced vomiting	0–33	5.2	2.6
Laxative misuse	0–26	4.2	1.6
Excessive exercising	0–40	51.3	7.6

A regular occurrence was determined as ≥4 times during the preceding 28 days. An exclusion to this criterion was applied to dietary restraint (regular occurrence was defined as ≥13 days over the preceding 28 days) and excessive exercise (regular occurrence was defined as ≥20 times over the preceding 28 days). Dietary restraint was a behavior described as going for “long periods of time (>8 hr) without eating anything at all in order to influence your shape or weight” (LT‐EDE‐Q 6.0 item 2); binge eating distinguished by loss of control (or objective binge eating) was an episode described by eating a large amount of food with the feeling of losing self‐control during consumption (LT‐EDE‐Q 6.0 item 14); self‐induced vomiting was an episode described as making “yourself vomit as a means of controlling your shape or weight” (LT‐EDE‐Q 6.0 item 16); laxative misuse was an episode described as going “to take laxatives as a means of controlling your shape or weight” (LT‐EDE‐Q 6.0 item 17); and excessive exercising was an episode described as exercising vigorously in “a driven or compulsive way as a means of controlling your weight, shape or amount of fat, or to burn off calories” (LT‐EDE‐Q 6.0 item 18).